Which belief is a core Adventist doctrine regarding Christ's return?

Which belief is a core Adventist doctrine regarding Christ's return?

• A. Purgatory
• B. Transubstantiation
• C. Predestination
• D. 2nd Coming

Answer: (D)

Christ's return as a literal, personal, visible event is what Adventists emphasize. They teach that Jesus will come again in glory with the angels, resurrect the righteous, judge the world, and establish God’s eternal kingdom. This future, physical appearance is central to their faith and shapes expectancy, mission, and worship, rather than a symbolic or purely spiritual idea. Other options correspond to beliefs not held as Adventist doctrine: purgatory involves post-death purification, transubstantiation concerns the nature of the Eucharist, and predestination speaks to divine sovereignty in salvation rather than the future return of Christ. Because Adventists stress a future, bodily return of Christ that completes redemption and ushers in a new creation, this return best captures the belief in question.

Christ's return as a literal, personal, visible event is what Adventists emphasize. They teach that Jesus will come again in glory with the angels, resurrect the righteous, judge the world, and establish God’s eternal kingdom. This future, physical appearance is central to their faith and shapes expectancy, mission, and worship, rather than a symbolic or purely spiritual idea. Other options correspond to beliefs not held as Adventist doctrine: purgatory involves post-death purification, transubstantiation concerns the nature of the Eucharist, and predestination speaks to divine sovereignty in salvation rather than the future return of Christ. Because Adventists stress a future, bodily return of Christ that completes redemption and ushers in a new creation, this return best captures the belief in question.